Carl vign



Letters APatent No. 75,605, dated March 1,7, 1868.

TIMPRovBD warrants-Muslime AND corinne MAcHINE-i @he Srlgmtl nient in` iu 'were hita what ma lmelting mit' nf the time.

p Atro ALL WHOM 1r MAY' doNeERN:

improved'Vegetable-Masking and Cutting Machine; and Ido hereby declare that the following is a full, clear,

r and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in 'the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this speciiication, in Which-'- Y Figureulrepresents a longitudinal vertical section' of my improved vegetable-meshing machine. Figure 2 is a. verticaltransverse section of the same. I Figure 3 is aye'itieal transverse section of the same, 'showing the device converted into a vegetable-cutter. ySimilar' lett-ers of reference indicate corresponding partis. I

" Be its-known that I, CARL VIGNAL, of the city-county, and State of New `York,haveinventcd a newv and;`

This invention -rcl'ates'to a new apparatus for meshing or cutting all sorts of vegetable or other editable material, and consists of a hollow conical grating or cutting-roller mounted on alhorizontal shaft, with open large end, and of a concave shield set opposite the o penend, so that when the cone is revolved, and the article to be cut or mashed -held against its surface, the detached' particles will enter the cone through perforations 1n its shell, and will eitherifall downen4 its lower inclined inner surface or will be thrown' against the shield, and v will, by the same, be conducted to the same receptacle into which they fall directly from-the cone.

A', in the drawing, represents a frame of. suitable size and material, in uprights an of which a horizontal shaft, B, has its bearings; On the shai't' B are mounted a ily-Wheel, C, and a truncated hollow4 conc, D, as shown in'iig. 1. .Qnc or both of the caps'b of the shaft-journals are hinged, so that the shaft can be removed to be {replaced hy another, or to allow the removal of the conc D from it and its replacement by another cone. The

large end of the cone D is open,`thc smaller one closed, as shown. E is a stationary-concave shield xed opposite to theopcn end-of the cone, as shown. The cone is either provided with a perforated grating-surface, as in flags' 1 and 2 01' itis slotted' and has cutters, c'c, as in iig. 3. Fris' a stationary or movable rest, having an inclined upper surface, and being arranged so as to allow the article to be out to be placed. upon it and to be held against the cone, as in igs.r2 and 3. l'

1f the grating-cone is used, the particles fdetached fremithepiece to be mashed enter the interior of the cone, and fall down on itsnlower inclined inner face, orthey'v are thrown against' the shield E, Awhich prevents their being spread about, and which causes them to be gathered ina suitablefreceptacle placed below the large end of the cone. The -same results are obtained if'the cuttingcone is employed. r i

4Hat/ing described my invention, what I clairnfas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination ci' theremovahle truncated conc D, provided with the graters or cutters c, the revolving curvedgatheringshicld E, restF, and hinged bearings Ii, said cones-and shield revolving upon the shaft B indpendently of eachother, all constructed anclarranged te opera-teas herein described for the pur-posespecied.

Witnesses:

WM. F, McNamara,` ALEX. F. Renners.v 

